A close-up of instruction 4, a division, recorded as V_5 / V_4. But the correct instruction should be V_4 / V_5.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 17:10:32 UTC Robert McNees

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   One argument for referring to Lovelace as the "first computer programmer" is that the routine presented in Note G has an important feature in common with just about every subsequent computer program: a bug.

   Operation 4 is listed in the manuscript as the division ²V₅ / ²V₄. It should have read ²V₄ / ²V₅.

   However, this was likely a typo during typesetting rather than a bug in the original code. Still, a familiar problem for anyone who every typed code from a magazine into a computer.